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The article reports on labor unions and art patronage with emphasis on artist Rockwell Kent. According to the author, Kent's papers showed the American labor movement and his attempts to translate his theories related to art and others. He was a member of the International Workers of the World (IWW), and other organizations that focused on the interests of working-class people. He became involved with the strike conducted by quarrymen and marble workers against the Vermont Marble Company. He was asked to speak at a public meeting to raise money for the striking quarrymen and marble makers. He also introduced a gravestone scheme and encouraged artists and writers to join in his scheme, and contributed some of his own money and sold or raffled off numerous art works.

The article presents a detailed discussion of the contents of the book "Trilby," by George Du Maurier. It tells of social and aesthetic revelations and the Jews' patronage of art. It states that the book is regarded as one of the most financially successful and popular novels of its day. It elaborates that the book hesitates between elitism and egalitarianism, enthusiasm and horror of the marketplace in general and the merchandising of talents in particular, and also between popularization and vulgarization.

Examines the conflict between art and science in classifying effective industrial management using the book `Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge,' by Edward O. Wilson. Role of consilience in the art-versus-science debate on management; Account on the origin of a modern science of management; Context of managers as leaders and artists.